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WCD Schedules Meeting to Discuss Voc Assistance Rules

Wednesday, March 7, 2018
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A rule-making advisory committee for the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division will meet in April to discuss a permanent replacement for vocational assistance regulations that an appellate court struck down earlier this year.
The Court of Appeals in February said the division’s rules failed to account for a worker’s source of income from side jobs when determining eligibility for vocational assistance.
The division, responding to the decision in Chu v. SAIF Corp., adopted temporary rules in February requiring evaluation of all pre-injury wages in determining whether a worke...

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